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Jamie Williams – Excavations at Butts Piece, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire
26th September 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Jamie Williams is a graduate of the University of Reading and has worked for Thames Valley Archaeological Services for 8 years. He has worked on many wonderful sites both as a digger and as a supervisor, with highlights being the Roman Villa of Tackley, a possible pre-Roman-conquest trading site in Buckinghamshire, and, of course, Stanton Harcourt.
The excavations at Stanton Harcourt revealed vast amounts of archaeology ranging from mesolithic through to WWII activity, with the main focus of the site being the dense Iron Age occupation in the form of ~1,700 storage pits that was featured on Digging for Britain (Series 10, Ep 4). The excavation also uncovered an Anglo-Saxon settlement of 20+ post-built timber buildings which might be the original village of Stanton. Finds and features from other time periods were also present, including several Roman enclosures along the southern boundary of the pits. This site adds to the tapestry of rich and complex history of occupation uncovered around the Stanton Harcourt area.